/demand-intake

1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md → demand-letter practice, landscape, risk calibration.
2. Follow the workflow and reference below.
3. Run the adaptive intake (core 8 always; strategic block if material or --full).
4. Generate slug from title + counterparty + year-month.
5. Write ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/demand-letters/[slug]/intake.md.
6. Confirm with user: "Intake saved. Run /litigation-legal:demand-draft [slug] when ready."

Demand Intake

Purpose

The drafting is downstream. The value is in the pre-writing — forcing the questions a careless letter skips. Leverage, BATNA, downside tolerance, privilege filters, the actual audience. A demand letter sent without thinking about those is worse than no letter.

Load context

• ~/.claude/plugins/config/claude-for-legal/litigation-legal/CLAUDE.md → Demand-letter practice (insurance-tender timing, materiality threshold for matter creation, any seed-doc templates), landscape (counterparty type, repeat-adversary patterns), risk calibration (to pre-estimate materiality), house style. Tone, compliance period, marking, signer are NOT practice-level defaults — they are set per matter in the ## Posture for this matter step below.

Flags

• --full → run the complete intake regardless of materiality heuristics (for counsel who wants thorough every time)

The intake

Posture for this matter (ask FIRST, before the core)

Posture for this matter. Demand-letter tone and terms are case-by-case, not a practice default. Ask:

• Tone: measured / assertive / aggressive? (depends on the relationship, the amount, and whether litigation is likely)
• Response window: what's reasonable given the claim? (14 days is common for payment demands; 30 days for cure; 7 days for cease-and-desist — but the contract or protocol may set it)
• Marking: does this need a "without prejudice" or "without prejudice save as to costs" marking? (settlement communications do; assertions of claim often don't; jurisdiction matters — ask if unsure)
• Signer: you, the client, the GC, instructed solicitor/counsel? Don't assume. Read the prior demand correspondence in the matter file if there is any — it establishes the register.

Record the answers in the intake under a ## Posture section before ## Parties. These answers govern the rest of the intake and the downstream draft — do not fall back to a practice-level default if the user left any of them blank; ask again.

Core — always asked (8 questions)

1. Demand type payment | breach-cure | cease-desist | employment-separation | preservation | other

2. Parties

• Sender: our company (and any specific entity if multi-entity)
• Recipient: counterparty — name, entity, address
• Recipient audience: who actually reads (GC? CEO? individual? in-house legal?)
• Relationship: customer | vendor | ex-employee | competitor | third-party | other

3. Triggering event

• What happened and when (dates matter — statute-of-limitations, notice periods)
• Evidence available (contracts, emails, records, witnesses)

Seed doc opportunity: "If you can share the underlying contract, correspondence, or evidence, the draft will be materially sharper. Paths work."

4. Legal / contractual basis

• Which provisions — specific contract sections if applicable
• Governing law (jurisdiction, choice-of-law clause)
• Statutes or rules relied on (placeholders OK — the draft will flag [CITE:___] anyway)

5. Desired outcome

• Specific asks. Not "resolution" — payment of $X by date Y; cessation of specific activity Z; cure within N days; return of specific property.
• If multiple asks, order them (primary vs. fallback)

6. Deadlines

• External deadline driving this (SoL, ongoing harm window, business event)

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